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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. H. DAVIS AND LEMUEIJ L. DAVIS, OF SILVER PLUME, COLORADO.

MEDICAL COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 239,463, dated March 29, 1881.

Application filed October 18, 1880. (Specimens) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, JOHN R. H. DAVIS 1 and LEMUEL L. DAVIS, citizens of the United States, residing at Silver Plume, in the county of Clear Creek and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Medical Compounds; and we do hereby declare the following to be a-full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable to make and use the same.

l treatment of lung and liver complaints, and

also indigestion, loss of appetite, general debility, and diseases of the digestive organs generally.

The invention consists of a compound or mixture formed of the ingredients hereinafter mentioned and claimed.

In preparing our compound we take the following ingredients, viz: sarsaparilla-root, a half-ounce; wildcherry bark, (Prunes Virginicmcu) half-ounce; honey-locust bark. (Gladitschict triacunthus,) one ounce; dandelionroot, (Tawma'cum d6n8-l607ti8,) half-ounce; red haw or hawthorn-bark, (Cratccgus omg cantha.) one ounce. The aboveingredients are pulverized or ground, and arethen steepedor soaked in about one quart of good whisky. In order to obtain all the extractive materials or virtues of the ingredients the compound is permitted to stand for a period of about seven days before using it. After the completion of the macerating process the solid or undissolved materials may be removed by filtration or decantation of the compound.

It may be stated that afull dose of our mixture or bitter-s is a 'dessertspoonful, given three times a day; but, of course, the nature others skilled in the art to which it appertains of the patient and disease or ailment will determine the amount to be given.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is- The medical compound or mixture herein described, consisting of sarsaparilla-root, wildcherry bark, honey-locust bark, dandelion-root, red-liaw bark, and whisky, in or about the proportions specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. H. DAVIS. LEMUEL L. DAVIS.

Witnesses as to signature of John R. H;

Davis:

JOHN W. GANLEY, Tnos. DUNN. Witnesses as to signature of Lemuel L. Davis:

D. H. OREAR,

J. F. TUssEY. 

